Daily American Organ

PROSPECTUS
OF THE "AMERICAN ORGAN,"
A Daily and Weekly Paper, published in Washington City, D. C., by
AN ASSOCIATION OF NATIVE AMERICANS.

We have reached an important crisis in our political history. The two leading parties in our country, hitherto separated by broad lines, either of principle or of policy, differ now scarcely in any thing but in names.

A National Bank, formerly an essential point of difference between rival parties, has now no advocates.

A Protective Tariff for the sake of protection, which once divided parties and distracted our National Councils, has become obsolete, as a question of party policy, simply because a revenue tariff affords incidental protection to American Manufactures.

A modification of the details of our present tariff system is all that is demanded by the most strenuous advocates of protection to American Industry.

The distribution of the proceeds of the public lands among the several States, as formerly claimed by one party, and the application of those proceeds solely in aid of the national Treasury as claimed by the other party, have both yielded to a compromise of these conflicting opinions, so far, at least, as to sink these questions as issues between Whigs and Democrats.

A plan formed of a compound of "squatter sovereignty," of "graduation, and of surrender to the States" in which they lie, seems likely to withdraw the public lands from the arena of future party contests.

The improvement of harbors and rivers by congressional aid, on which political parties have hitherto differed at different times, has now become less a question of principle than of local and sectional contest; and it will doubtless be adjusted by the next Congress, upon that basis of liberality and justice demanded by the spirit of the age and the true interests of the country.

Other questions, of minor importance, on which, at different times, the two prominent parties of the country disagreed, have now, by a change of circumstances, become obsolete.

What, then, remain as issues of any theoretical or practical importance between Whigs and Democrats? We know of none; and if these hitherto rival parties shall maintain their respective organizations, they will do so for the mere sake of the spoils of power!

But new issues have arisen, having no reference to the party organizations of Whigs and Democrats-- issues which are vastly important in their bearing upon the future welfare of the country--and which issues must, in their discussion, progress, and termination, annihilate these two parties, which, for years past, have battled, with alternate success, for political supremacy.

A new era is at hand-an era which will be characterized, in the future history of these States, as the
ERA OF PATRIOTISM!

Throughout the length, and breadth of this great and glorious Union, the masses of the American people have spontaneously and simultaneously started the inquiry
ARE NOT AMERICANS CAPABLE OF GOVERNING THEIR COUNTRY?

This inquiry is as universal as it is natural and pertinent.

The response is being given in the thousands of associations springing up in all portions of the United States, and resting on the single basis, that the native-born citizens of this Union have the capacity and the will to administer their own Government, to protect the rights which they have inherited, and to perpetuate the freedom and independence of their native land!

Shall we trace the causes of this spontaneous and universal uprising of the masses of our countrymen?

The evils incident to the indiscriminate immigration of foreigners into our country the consequences of permitting such immigrants to enjoy the right of suffrage.. and the degrading effect of elevating foreigners to posts of honor and trust under our government; all these have been seen and known to our people for years past, and yet until now, with few exceptions, the American people have seemed to be blind to the progress of foreignism in the land. We need not, on the occasion of presenting this circular prospectus to the country, assign the causes for this sudden and general manifestation of the purpose of the American people to take the reins of government into their own hands; it is sufficient for the object we have now in view to state the undeniable and obvious fact that such purpose exists.

We now come forward to present to our fellow-citizens the mode and means of concentrating the opinions and of harmonizing the action of those who are disposed to unite in the formation of an "American party," whose purpose shall be to find a remedy for the manifold evils which have come upon us, and which are yearly increasing under the disastrous operation of our laws of naturalization? We propose to establish, in conformity with the wishes of thousands of the citizens of this District, and of a large number of our friends in the different States, a daily and weekly paper, to be called
THE AMERICAN ORGAN.

The publication will commence on the 18th day of November daily, and on the 20th weekly.

A cash capital, amply sufficient to commence and to continue the enterprise, has been subscribed and secured to be advanced by a number of wealthy and influential gentlemen: and we are insured a daily circulation surpassing that of any paper now published in Washington city. The number of our weekly subscribers will depend upon the enthusiasm of our friends in the several States, but we have such assurances that we cannot doubt we shall commence with many thousands; and that a year will not transpire before our weekly list will be swelled to more than one hundred thousand.

Our position at the seat of the federal government, the centre of our political system, where all the representatives of the States, and of the people annually assemble, and where prominent men of all parties periodically sojourn for many months, is considered by us, and by our friends, as the most favorable one for the publication of the ORGAN OF THE AMERICAN PARTY; and if the most untiring devotion to the advocacy of the doctrines and policy of this party shall give us a claim to its support, we know we shall deserve, and we trust we shall receive it.

We cannot perhaps more distinctly and concisely define the basis on which the American Organ is established than by presenting the following extract which we copy and adopt from an address of a former President of the Missouri Native American Association, and published at St. Louis in February, 1841, to wit:

"THE perpetuation of American freedom is our OBJECT, AMERICAN RIGHTS OUR MOTTO, AND THE AMERICAN PARTY OUR COGNOMEN.

Our position is thus defined. We shall advocate such measures as will in our judgment, if carried out perpetuate our freedom and protect our native rights; nor shall we at any time deviate from the path of duty as the organ of the American party, and the advocate of American rights.

We shall neither sustain nor oppose any political measures on the ground that they emanate from a Democratic or from a Whig administration; but we shall discuss all political questions with the most perfect freedom from favor or prejudice, toward the present or any future administration. Keeping always in view the principles and purposes of the American party, we shall battle for those principles and purposes, while as an independent journal, we shall approve what we think is right and condemn what we think is wrong in the principles of all public men and of all political parties. The editor of the American Organ will be a Democrat of the school of Jefferson and Madison, progressive in his notions of public policy, yet consistent in his advocacy of the rights of the States.

No essay or editorial shall ever appear in the American Organ, the tendency of which would be to prejudice the rights or wound the feelings of the citizens of any of the States. So far as the influence of this paper shall extend, the constitutional rights of each, and of all the States, shall be maintained. We hold that the institution of slavery belongs exclusively to those States in which it exists. Each of the States, for itself, has the sole and exclusive right to determine whether or not slavery shall exist within its borders.

We shall therefore oppose all agitation of the question of slavery, either in Congress or out of it.

The "American Organ" will advocate the free and untrammelled exercise of the rights of conscience, on all questions connected with religious faith; but it will, by all fair and respectful arguments, oppose foreign domination over American citizens, from whatever quarter it may approach, and as well in matters ecclesiastical as in matters political.

A synopsis of the proceedings of Congress during each session will be from day to day presented.

General and local news will be gathered and published, in order that our patrons may have a general knowledge of passing events.

The daily paper will be published every afternoon, (except Sundays,) and delivered to subscribers at 10 cents per week, or mailed to subscribers at $5 per year, payable in advance.

The weekly paper will be published every Monday morning, at $2 per year to single subscribers, payable in advance. Clubs of ten or more will be furnished at $1 50 each per year, (if sent to any one post office, payable in advance.

Advertising is solicited, at the usual rates; and, as the Organ will have an extensive circulation, it will afford the most desirable medium in this respect.

Subscribers will please remit their subscriptions, on or before the 20th day of November, directed to "American Organ," Washington City, D. C.

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